Uneventful Re-Housing of P. ornata

[Tortoise Tom]

I moved my little one from a 4x4x7" AMAC into this 8x8x12" Nano Tall today.

He went and hid behind the water bowl:

The move was uneventful and the tarantula moved over easily and with no teleporting or freaking out. Nice and boring, just how I like it. I checked back later and he'd moved into the middle of the back wall after the lights went out.

 

[Enn49]

Congrats on an easy rehouse. It's funny how the ones that you expect to cause you problems are often the simplest.

 

[Tortoise Tom]

Congrats on an easy rehouse. It's funny how the ones that you expect to cause you problems are often the simplest.

So true. I was ready for an epic battle, and this one just moved over like a mild mannered Grammostola or something. Meanwhile my new B. auratum was bouncing around like a whirling dervish when I moved it into its new enclosure this weekend.

 

[Tortoise Tom]

He hung out on the glass for a day or two, but I found him stretched out on the back of the branch in that typical pokie pose today. I tossed a roach in and he uncharacteristically went for it almost immediately:

 

[Dave Jay]

I still wait for an eventful rehousing thread!
I want to hear one with the tarantula running riot around the house, the family and pets out on the lawn, the neighbours being evacuated, animal control called in........
.......ending with the keeper running up and down the street screaming with a tarantula hanging off his nose before being shot with a tranquiliser dart while the emergency services and local news crews look on!!!
But maybe that's just me!

 

[Arachnoclown]

Beautiful spider and enclosure. Gonna have to find him a lady.

 

[Tortoise Tom]

Beautiful spider and enclosure. Gonna have to find him a lady.

How can you tell it is male?

I have another one. I'll see if I can get a decent pic and post it.

 

[Tortoise Tom]

I still wait for an eventful rehousing thread!
I want to hear one with the tarantula running riot around the house, the family and pets out on the lawn, the neighbours being evacuated, animal control called in........
.......ending with the keeper running up and down the street screaming with a tarantula hanging off his nose before being shot with a tranquiliser dart while the emergency services and local news crews look on!!!
But maybe that's just me!

That would be hilarious, but that just isn't how I do things. You'll have to get your entertainment elsewhere.

 

[Arachnoclown]

How can you tell it is male?

I have another one. I'll see if I can get a decent pic and post it.

It's really just a guess...if you have a ventral photo I can sex these guys pretty easy. This is the only species I trust in doing this. I sex molts with everything else, but I'm a ornata guy. The Males are prominently brown at this size...dimorphism hits early with P. ornata. That's why I say male...I've got lots of males too. The females are much prettier...

 

[Tortoise Tom]

It's really just a guess...if you have a ventral photo I can sex these guys pretty easy. This is the only species I trust in doing this. I sex molts with everything else, but I'm a ornata guy. The Males are prominently brown at this size...dimorphism hits early with P. ornata. That's why I say male...I've got lots of males too. The females are much prettier...

Thank you for the education, and I'll get you a ventral pic ASAP! I knew none of this, and I've seen it in print nowhere, so really, thank you for sharing your experience.

 

[Tortoise Tom]

@Arachnoclown
Got the pic:

 

[Tortoise Tom]

And my smaller one was in a decent position, but the pic through the dirty AMAC box isn't great.

 

[Arachnoclown]

@Arachnoclown
Got the pic:
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It's a boy

 

[Arachnoclown]

And my smaller one was in a decent position, but the pic through the dirty AMAC box isn't great.
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Hard to tell with this one.

 

[Tortoise Tom]

Hard to tell with this one.

Thank you for looking. I'll get a better pic eventually and try again.

 

[spodermin]

I still wait for an eventful rehousing thread!
I want to hear one with the tarantula running riot around the house, the family and pets out on the lawn, the neighbours being evacuated, animal control called in........
.......ending with the keeper running up and down the street screaming with a tarantula hanging off his nose before being shot with a tranquiliser dart while the emergency services and local news crews look on!!!
But maybe that's just me!

I'm taking my 6" P. Ornata I just got out and stripping and redoing its enclosure on wedenesday. It will be my first arboreal rehouse (besides slings) so I'm anticipating an absolute disaster. Stay tuned

 

[spodermin]

Female for reference

 

[Tnoob]

Is is Poecilotharia regalis that has the black and white? I really like these species too. Good looking T, my dude.

 

[spodermin]

Is is Poecilotharia regalis that has the black and white? I really like these species too. Good looking T, my dude.

You'd be correct. Thanks man

 

[Beowulf68]

So a funny rehouse.. not about to post this by itself. My son who is learning the hobby like myself was helping rehouse an H. Maculata. Open the top and in .5 seconds up my left arm, under my shirt sleeve and in my armpit. Needless to say it was funny as heck watching my son try to capture said beast